To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time;… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with… — David Lynch Copy Share Image